Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIERFor my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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